This week we look back at my favourite releases of 2025. We’ve got lots of great local music (7 bands!) from what was another strong year for alt rock/indie in Atlantic Canada and I’ve got some great cuts from not so local acts as well. I hope you’ll enjoy! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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THRILLS – An assortment of deeep cut party starters! SPILLS – I make a huge mistake partway through the show! CHILLS – Enjoy me being flustered for like 10 subsequent minutes. Grey Temples 36 has got it all! But that’s ok. No chance of fun without risk of failure! Starting out this week we’ve got Eddie Spencer. A Montego Bay born, Toronto transplant, Spencer moved to Toronto with his ska
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Episode 03 – Not By Choice For Liam Killeen of Not By Choice, the 2000s Canadian music landscape was defined by one powerful force: the MuchMusic monoculture. In an age before endless streaming and personalized algorithms, MuchMusic acted as the singular, national curator of cool. Liam explains that the network “dictated” the culture, exposing an entire generation to both international headliners and homegrown talent, thanks in part to CanCon regulations
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Episode 22. Artist Song Album Year Bel Canto Shimmering, Warm & Bright Shimmering, Warm & Bright 1993 Levon Minassian Forest Big Blue Ball (Compilation) 2008 Nine Horses The Day the Earth Stole Heaven Snow Borne Sorrow 2005 The Waking Eyes Wolves At the Door Holding On to Whatever It Is 2008 Jenn Grant Under The Overpass Champagne Problems 2023 The Orb Vuja De Vuja De (Single) 2007 Yazoo Nobody’s Diary
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Episode 101 starts off with a great cover of a Counting Crows classic by MJ Lenderman and we’ve got lots of great alt rock this week. New music from Moncton (Sprawl), Corner Brook Newfoundland (Horse Chops), and the new project from MJ Lenderman/Waxahatchee (Snocaps) Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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Grey Temples is officially surfing the information superhighway (once a week, because as we all know the internet is terrible, but probably necessary in the grand scheme of things, like a lamprey eel). But man, if there was a representative episode of Grey Temples to start with, this is a gooder. Entrenched firmly in the 1970s, this episode is a symptom of my imagined nostalgia for a slightly crappy decade
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